One Word Album Review: Volumes’ ‘Different Animals’

Aw yes, the album review: A 300-500 word write-up explaining all the eccentricities pretentious wordsmiths love and hate about a band’s new album. While most reviews tend to hover the line between a positive and negative analysis, we’ve found that some seem to deviate from the pack choosing to spend their time putting an artist down for months of hard work.

We, on the other hand, would rather give the power back to the artist by letting them take a stab at reviewing (or simply explaining) their new music. And in order to make that process as easy (and fun) as possible, we’ve decided to give the artists one word and one word only to describe each song off their new release – thus creating the one word album review.

Featured on today’s OWAR (One Word Album Review; come on, keep up) is Volumes’ masterful welcome back to the progressive metal community, aka Different Animals. After not releasing a new full-length album since 2014′s No Sleep, Different Animals is exactly what you’d expect from the Los Angeles outfit. It’s heavy, it’s technical and it’s definitely a party.

Now, before we turn this too much into our own review, we’re going to pass things over to the band as they carefully chose twelve words to describe each of their fiery new tracks featuring new co-vocalist Myke Terry. After reading what the band had to say about Different Animals, be sure to pick up a copy here before the album drops this Friday.